chawl

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Marathi चाळ (cāḷ), from Sanskrit. Doublet of cell.

Noun

chawl (plural chawls)

  1. A type of residential tenement building found in India, typically for poor working-class people.
    • 2016 June 19, “Tiger Shroff: My father is the original hero, he doesn’t have to try like me. I fake it.”, in The Times of India‎[1]:
      I came from a chawl, and when I started out main zyada baat nahi karta tha, mera haath zyada chalta tha (both laugh!
    • 2017, Sunil Khilnani, Incarnations, Penguin, page 419:
      Dhirubhai Ambani's first home in Mumbai was nearly as humble as the ones the gawking labourers inhabit: a pigeonhole chawl four kilometres from Antilia, in the pushcart-clogged trading neighbourhood of Bhuleshwar.

Etymology 2

From Middle English chaule, chavel, from Old English ċeafl (“jaw, jowl”). More at jowl.

Noun

chawl (plural chawls)

  1. (UK, dialectal, of a person) Jaw or cheek.
  2. (UK, dialectal, of an animal) Jowl; cheek; face.

Anagrams

Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /χau̯l/

Noun

chawl

  1. aspirate mutation of cawl (“soup”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of cawl
radical soft nasal aspirate
cawl gawl nghawl chawl

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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